I'm pleased to report I have two new appointments.
As I have reported for some time, my appointment at City, University of London was scheduled to end on 31 October this year, when EU funding for my work on the Horizon 2020 Combating Financial Fraud and Empowering Regulators (COFFERS) project came to an end. However, I learned this week that City is extending my contract on a one day a week basis to next July so that I can complete research that they might wish to submit to the university REF appraisal scheme. This is the work I am doing on tax spillovers with Andrew Baker at Sheffield University, on which I will have more to say over the coming year.
In addition, I also learned this week that I have been appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Anglia Ruskin University. This will be to work with Professor Aled Jones and his colleagues at the Global Sustainability Institute at the University. Some of the work I will be doing with the Corporate Accountability Network will have links to Anglia Ruskin. I am grateful to them for this opportunity.
I might add that I am also in discussion with another university about an appointment in another discipline. But news on that will have to follow if it happens.
In the meantime fundraising for the work of the Corporate Accountability Network continues as I will definitely be working in a civil society context again before the year is out.
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My warm congratulations to you Richard.
Simon Wren-Lewis Merton college, Richard Murphy Angela Ruskin..says it all. Actually made me laugh. And you have the nerve to slag off Wren Lewis.
Entry requirements into Ruskin is a Betec, high drop out rate, it is not an academic entity
Entry requirement to Oxford is a Betec
And sure as heck I reserve the right to criticise
I happen to believe in a world where all should have a voice
You clearly do not
Congratulations, Richard.
I have to say that Harry is over-egging the pudding somewhat. I recently saw
a discussion involving Prof. Steve Keen, in which he pointed out that it was normal for Oxford PPE students to cover only a year’s worth of undergraduate economics, with similar amounts of philosophy and politics in their 3 years of study. My point is that the social cachet of Oxbridge does not always reflect in actual academic value, and in that sphere they no longer have any monopoly.
What is worrying is that with PPE Oxon being seen as the sine qua non these days for a political or media career, no wonder decision making and political reporting based on such thin intellectual gruel has got us where we are.
Angela Ruskin indeed. !!
Snigger. Snigger. 🙂
Harry
The universities you love so much are very much responsible for promoting the economic stupidity that has led this country to unneeded austerity, over-financialisation of industry and even BREXIT.
They are guilty as charged and thoroughly discredited. We need new sources of economic thinking that will come from the very institutions you deride.
Enjoy it whilst you can. The economic ideas your favoured institutions support are known for eating their own babies. These are the last days of your house(s). The reckoning is on its way – it really is.
Congrats Richard. If I lived closer I’d buy you a celebratory coffee of your choice! Seriously, it’s so important that the quantity and quality of the work you do is adequately funded. Never has there been such a need for appropriately qualified ‘change agents’. Viva la revolución!
There may be more on that in due course
Congratulations Richard, keep up the good work.
Hello Harry, my elder daughter rejected a place at Oxford, the course wasn’t good enough.
It wouldn’t have done for her to become a Brexit minister you see, she’s no Raab, and she likes being invited back for lunch at home
🙂